[Coco] Cloud-9 Xmas sale

[Mark Marlette]

Andrew,

There has only been one drive as I recall that didn't work with the  
SCSI interface. It was SCSI but different. Boisy analyzed it and  
determined what it was doing. I just don't remember. All other drives  
have worked. The interface supports SCSI-1 ans SCSI-2 drives.

CDROM will work no problem with SuperDriver. You can also get  
HawkSoft's CDF for the 6809 and read ISO9660 CDRs.

Drivers...Yes they are extra. In the past we debated about how to do  
this. Should a RSDOS user pay for NitrOS-9 drivers and reverse for  
NitrOS-9 only users? We then removed the drivers and then applied the  
proper drivers for what the customer wanted to do. SuperDriver is  
hands down the most integent driver the CoCo has ever seen....to  
date...SuperBoard is going to push this. :)
You can boot right from the SuperDriver disk, the driver queries the  
drive, determines size and then creates the descriptor, etc, for you.  
You have to know nothing.

MPI-SuperIDE or any Cloud-9 product. All products have been tested  
extensively on all CoCos. CoCo1, CoCo2 and CoCo3 w/MPI and without.

Limited quantities of the HD63x09ep in stock. When they are gone, no  
rain checks.

Thanks,

Mark


Quoting Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net>:

> I am definitely interested in getting one of the 6309 chips. I am also
> interested in the SCSI controller (preferably with clock), but I need to
> think on it a little first. I am not sure if I want to grab this or wait
> for the new SuperIDE device. I do know that I want to add a hard drive
> (and possibly) a CD-ROM drive to my CoCo in the future.
>
> What kind of SCSI hard drives does the SCSI controller support, and
> would it support a SCSI CD-ROM drive? Also - do burners work under
> NitrOS-9 (IDE or SCSI) - I would imagine I would need to buy the driver
> from somebody (or at least, I remember hearing the drivers were
> payware)? Does the SCSI cartridge (and for that matter, the SuperIDE)
> play well with the converted MPI on a CoCo 3?
>
> I have several SCSI hard drives - most of them are 9 gig Cheetahs (or
> something like that - 10K RPM drives pulled from a RAID), and at one
> time I knew what kind of SCSI they were (wide?) - they use the small and
> dense "D" connector on the back, not the larger wide 50 pin connectors.
> I know I have SCSI CD-ROM drives with 50 pin connectors, but I am not
> sure I have any burners (being able to burn isn't a big deal).
>
> I will send an email directly to you later this week once I know more -
> hopefully I won't miss out on the 6309...
>
> -- Andrew L. Ayers
>     Glendale (Phoenix), Arizona
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